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THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 

 OF LONDON. 



SESSION 1857. 

 Eleventh Meeting, April 21th, 1857. 



Sir RODERICK I. MURCHISON, President, in the Chair. 



Elections. — Major-General A. Alexander ; Dr. Risdon Bennett ; Major- 

 General J. R. Craufurd ; Rev. C. E. Ruck Keene ; Sir George Simpson, 

 Governor-in- Chief Rupert Land ; the Rev. R. C. Trench, Dean of West- 

 minster; and G. W. Allan; A. Asher Goldsmid; H.R. Grellet ; Charles G. 

 Hill ; Richard Hoper ; Austen H. Layard, d.c.l. ; G. A. Lloyd; Andrew A. 

 Raton ; Edward Purcell, ll.d. ; Thomas Vardon (^Librarian of the House 

 of Commons) ; and Charles Verrey, Esqrs., wei^e elected Fellows. 



Donations. — The donations to the Library since the former meeting 

 were very numerous, among which the following more important 

 ones were mentioned: — 184 sheets of the Ordnance Surrey, com- 

 pleting the county of Linlithgow; 21 sheets of the Indian Atlas ; 

 194 charts and other geographical works, presented by the Hon. the 

 East India Company ; 5 additional maps of the Atlas of Bavaria, 

 presented by the Surveyor-General's department in Bavaria ; Reuss 

 and Browne's Map of the Subdivision in and about Sydney and its 

 Environs, in 4 sheets, presented by the authors ; map of the United 

 States, British and Central America, by Professor A. D. Rogers, of 

 the United States, and A. Keith Johnston, f.r.g.s. ; Kos. 9, 10, and 

 11 of the Royal Illustrated Atlas, by Messrs. Fullarton and Co., 

 of Edinburgh ; manuscript map of South-Eastern Africa, showing 

 the Orange River Sovereignty, &c., by Mr. R. Moffatt, presented 

 through Dr. Livingston; Memoirs of the Geological Survey of 

 India, presented through Professor Oldham; Projections of Two- 

 thirds of a Sphere, by Colonel James, r.e. ; Dr. Armstrong's Dis- 

 cover}^ of the North- West Passage ; maps of the Indian Archipelago 

 and Chile, &c., by J. Bartholomew, Jun., f.r.g.s. ; &c. &c. 



Announcements. — The President announced that the subscription 

 list in aid of the expedition in search of the Franklin relics, and 



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